· Private foundation
Dillon Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k94 grants · $391k
- $10k–50k27 grants · $519k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $1.4M
- $250k+2 grants · $1.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $867,500 |
| STERLING RIVERFRONT FOUNDATION | $382,500 |
| WOODLAWN ARTS ACADEMY | $230,347 |
| Individual grant recipient | $196,472 |
| UNITED WAY OF WHITESIDE COUNTY | $192,750 |
| COMMUNITY UNIT SCHOOL DISTRICT 5 | $159,259 |
| STERLING PUBLIC LIBRARY | $153,000 |
| GREATER STERLING DEVELOPMENT CORP | $144,566 |
| WHITESIDE AREA CAREER CENTER | $84,000 |
| SAUK VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $78,000 |
| ROCK RIVER HOSPICE AND HOME | $68,850 |
| CITY OF STERLING | $57,958 |
| STERLING ROCK FALLS FAMILY YMCA | $55,000 |
| STERLING SCHOOLS FOUNDATION | $49,000 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $36,750 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $571k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against +33% for those funded once.
191 repeat relationships: 127 still active in FY2025, 64 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $78k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- GSGREATER STERLING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION9× · 2017–2025 · $3.2M · revenue +75% · 74% of their budget
- SSSTERLING SCHOOLS FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $920k · revenue +208%
- WAWOODLAWN ARTS ACADEMY4× · 2022–2025 · $869k · revenue +49% · 31% of their budget
Funded once
- HOHOSPICE OF ROCK RIVER VALLEYone grant, 2017 · $121k
- SASTERLING ATHLETIC BOOSTER CLUBone grant, 2017 · $20k
- SHSULLIVAN HOME - OPERATING EXPENSESone grant, 2017 · $13k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
To support salem health, salem health west valley and related organizations.
Rock river valley blood center, in partnership with our community, is dedicated to providing safe, high value blood products and services to people in need.
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…
Lake Forest Graduate School of Management's mission is to bring the real world to business education and leadership development.
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
How this is measured
100 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 100 of the 247 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds GREATER STERLING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF WHITESIDE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds STERLING RIVERFRONT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STERLING SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WOODLAWN ARTS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds STERLING-ROCK FALLS FAMILY YMCA ↗
- Who funds ROCK RIVER HOSPICE AND HOME ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE SAUK VALLEY ↗
- Who funds Sauk Valley Foodbank ↗
- Who funds CGH Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds WHITESIDE COUNTY SENIOR CENTER ↗
- Who funds STERLING ROCK FALLS COMMUNITY TRUST ↗
- Who funds Associated Colleges of Illinois Inc ↗
- Who funds Illinois Conservation Foundation ↗
- Who funds TIMBER LAKE PLAYHOUSE ↗
- Who funds BEREA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CHRISTMAS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DUBUQUE ↗
- Who funds Culver Educational Foundation ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: United Way of Whiteside County · William & Beverly Burkardt Family Foundation Nfp · Quad Cities Community Foundation · Sterling Rock Falls Community Trust · Kunes Family Foundation · Do It Best Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Northern IL · Bergstrom Inc Charitable Foundation Xxxxx2008 · The Kjellstrom Family Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · United Way of Lee County Inc · Ralph J Baudhuin Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Dillon Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dillon Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Save Ellis Island Inc: 10% of income from government
How this is measured
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